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wag0325
wag0325

Reputation: 1028

RSpec - Can't find spec/spec_helper.rb

I'm following Michael Hartl's Ruby on Rails 4 book and can't find the spec/spec_helper.rb. This is the link to his book http://ruby.railstutorial.org/ruby-on-rails-tutorial-book and I'm working on Chapter 3 Test driven development section.

I ran this code to invoked RSpec and static_pages_spec.rb 

$ rails generate integration_test static_pages      
invoke  rspec      
create    spec/requests/static_pages_spec.rb

After this I need to add the Capybara DSL to the RSpec helper file. 

spec/spec_helper.rb

# This file is copied to spec/ when you run 'rails generate spec:install'
…
RSpec.configure do |config|  
.  .  .  
config.include Capybara::DSL
end

PROBLEM: my problem is that I can't find or open spec/spec_helper.rb. I've tried $subl spec/spec_helper.rb but it only opened an empty text editor file.

Added Followings to my Gemfile for RSpec and TDD: 

group :development, :test do  
gem 'sqlite3', '1.3.8'  
gem 'rspec-rails', '2.13.1'
end

group :test do  
gem 'selenium-webdriver', '2.35.1'  
gem 'capybara', '2.1.0'
end

Ran: 

$ bundle install --without production
$ bundle update
$ bundle install
$ rails generate rspec:install
$ rails generate integration_test static_pages

After this point, I'm suppose to open spec/sepc_helper.rb and add the CapybaraDSL and run this $ bundle exec rspec spec/requests/static_pages_spec.rb. Since I couldn't find the spec_helper.rb, I just ran it on my terminal to see what happens and got following error: 

in `require': cannot load such file -- spec_helper (LoadError)

I'm not sure why I can't find spec_helper. I read the other tutorials and it seems like spec_helper file automatically forms when they load RSpec.

Upvotes: 3

Views: 10579

Answers (4)

Robbie Guilfoyle
Robbie Guilfoyle

Reputation: 3421

Double check that you are running rspec spec/ from the root rails directory and not from within the spec directory.

Upvotes: 5

trueinViso
trueinViso

Reputation: 1394

It may be worth mentioning that occasionally I try to run rspec in a folder other than the root directory and this is the error that pops up. I seem to recall that this can be modified somehow, but not sure how.

Upvotes: 1

lsaffie
lsaffie

Reputation: 1814

Make sure you have the rspec gem installed. You can do this by declaring it in your Gemfile

https://github.com/rspec/rspec-rails

In Gemfile

group :development, :test do
  gem 'rspec-rails', '~> 3.0.0.beta'
end

bundle install

bundle exec rails generate rspec:install

Those steps will create what's needed to run rspec.

Upvotes: 1

SergeyKutsko
SergeyKutsko

Reputation: 697

check Gemfile for:

group :development, :test do
  gem 'rspec-rails', '~> 3.0.0.beta'
end

run bundle install command at console:

after rails generate rspec:install

try in a bash at project folder:

find -name spec_helper.rb

there is a complete referece for Rspec usage with rails: https://github.com/rspec/rspec-rails

Upvotes: 4

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